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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daly Ohs. I'm Zara,

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Speaker 1: and over the next little while, we're going to be

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Speaker 1: bringing you a bonus series featuring our favorite deep dives

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Speaker 1: from twenty twenty four. We've put together the best deep

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Speaker 1: dives to listen to on the beach, road, tripping when

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Speaker 1: or just reflecting on the year that was. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: tda's summer series. Earlier this year, I'd say the world

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Speaker 1: was really rocked by really severe allegations that were made

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Speaker 1: against a very prominent rapper, producer, and entrepreneur. His name

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Speaker 1: is Sean Combs, but he goes by Diddy, and in

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Speaker 1: today's deep Dive, we unpack all of the allegations that

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Speaker 1: were leveled at diddy O for the past couple of months.

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Speaker 1: Just a quick note, though, since we have recorded this episode,

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Speaker 1: did he has been the subject of additional lawsuits. Those

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Speaker 1: lawsuits are also accusing him of sexual assault. Those allegations

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Speaker 1: this episode. But Did He has similarly rejected these accusations too.

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Speaker 1: This continues to be an evolving story, which we will

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Speaker 1: of course keep you updated on next year.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Zara, So today we are talking about Sean Diddy

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Speaker 2: Comb's AKAP Diddy aka path Daddy, a string of allegations

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Speaker 2: that he is currently facing. Now, this is a story

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Speaker 2: that's completely rocked the music industry, the entertainment industry more broadly,

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Speaker 2: and it has really far reaching implications. But let's start

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Speaker 2: from the beginning. There are a lot of layers to this,

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Speaker 2: as we'll get to for anyone who isn't familiar with

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Speaker 2: this story with this man who is Diddy.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So Sean Diddy Combs, and you referred there to

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Speaker 1: his many names. He's known as Puff Daddy, p Diddy, Puffy,

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Speaker 1: and Diddy. He's a rapper and a producer, and just

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Speaker 1: I think for clarity, we'll just call him Diddy throughout

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Speaker 1: He's also done a bit of acting. He starred in

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Speaker 1: And I do really just want to say here, I'm not,

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Speaker 1: had this power that wasn't just contained, as you said,

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Speaker 2: And as a businessman, you might know him from Sarok vodka, like,

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Speaker 1: the first allegations that were leveled at Ditty, and they

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Speaker 1: When those allegations were made public, did he denied all

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So, as you said, earlier this month, did He

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Speaker 1: So Damian Williams, who's the US Attorney for the Southern

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Speaker 3: The indicatement alledges that between at least two thousand and

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Speaker 2: Now, one of those charges, as you mentioned, uses the

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Speaker 1: And as you said, that's one of the charges, but

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Speaker 2: Allegations, and that's what's really captured the media's attention and

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Speaker 2: That's also a really interesting part of this.

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Speaker 1: It is and I think it's important to note that

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Speaker 2: And also the indictment mentions or allegers that these freak

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Speaker 1: And according to the prosecutors, this is really where the

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Speaker 2: So several really serious allegations in this federal indictment from

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